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Fair point but bandwidth has also increased from 56 kbit/s 100,000 kbit/s. CPUs have had similarly massive increases in speed as well.

A lot of the extra bandwidth usage is also probably in large part due to sloppiness. John Carmack did some impressively smart things in Quake Live to reduce bandwidth usage. I doubt most modern games like PUBG are anywhere near as optimized.



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